Drama Review - Assorted Gems

Assorted Gems

I originally was going to do Playful Kiss for today's drama review... But I just finished watching this show and I really have alot to say about it... Almost everyone is connected to everyone in this drama... And this review is going to be extra long. Especially since there were 50 episodes.

Cast:

Go Na Eun plays Gung Bi Chwi, which means Jade in Korean, who is a very headstrong, reliable, and responsible woman. She's the eldest of her siblings, and has a very good head on her shoulders. She's an extremely lovable person with a warm heart. She eventually falls in love with Seo Young Guk. At first she owns an eatery, but then starts writing dramas and gets married to Young Guk. She also helps take care of Lee Tae Ri, which is Young Guk's mother who developed dementia. 

So Yi Hyun plays Gung Ryu Bi, which is Ruby in Korean, who is a particularly odd person... She's stubborn, and very very cold hearted unless it's about her family, or people she sincerely cares about. She's a nurse at a hospital where she works with Yoo Byung Hoon who is a doctor and her boyfriend. She becomes very close with Kyle, and even falls in love with him.. Though that was never confirmed either. You can just tell. Eventually she does marry Byung Hoon even thought they've had a complicated relationship.. And I mean VERY COMPLICATED!

Lee Hyun Jin plays San Ho, which means coral in Korean, who is a sweet, loving brother to all his siblings. He's studying for a huge test and while doing so he gets married to Lee Kang Ji, who is a well off daughter of professors, who's adorably cute, and has such a great personality. They have a baby, and even though so much is going on in San Ho's life. He still passes the test. 

Lee Il Min plays Ho Bak, which means amber in Korean, who is the youngest of all the gems. He knows what he wants out of life and he goes for it. To not struggle with money is what he wants. He goes after Seo Kkeut Soon who happens to be Young Guk's little sister. They are together for awhile and actually develop feelings for each other. He gets married to Kkeut Soon and the gems and seo's become double in laws. Yaaaay. HAHA

Han Jin Hee plays Gung Sang Sik, who is the father of the gems. He's married to Pi Hye Ja, and although they are married, he use to have a player background and had a baby outside of marriage named Tae Ja. He's quite goofy and although is very fun to watch, at first he was sorta annoying to me. lol 

Han Hye Sook plays Pi Hye Ja who is the mother of the gems... She's absolutely crazy. Nuff said. LOL No I'm just kidding... Sorta. At first in the drama she got a boob job. A BOOB JOB. Of everything else she coulda done.. She got implants. She does stuff without asking her kids forcing them to become irritated and eventually kick out her and her husband.

Kim Young Ok plays Kyul Myung Ja who is the grandmother of the jewels on the dad's side. She's honestly more down to earth than the other grandma. She's also got a kinder heart. In the end of the drama she starts living with a man who's become smitten with her. And I think they get married? What is it they do at the end? I wouldn't know. It looked like some Japanese stuff. *shrug*

Jung Hye Sun plays Baek Jo, which btw means swan in Korean, who is the grandmother of the gems on the mom's side. She's also crazy. She's wacky and goofy and very conceited and selfish, but she also has a warm side to her. I really don't have much to say about this one..

Lee Tae Gon plays So Young Guk, who is the daughter of the owners of a famous company. One day his dad decides that he should experience the real world, and send him out into the world by himself to learn the ways of the world. He goes out and rents a place at Bi Chwi's place. He becomes very close to Bi Chwi and Kyle Huntington (another renter), and even starts working for Bi Chwi's eatery along with Kyle. He falls in love with Bi Chwi, they get married and take care of his mother.

Choi Ah Jin plays Seo Kkeut Soon, who is the younger sister of Young Guk. The girl's beautiful, is she not? At first she's a rebellious teenager, who did nothing but upset her parents. When her mom developed dementia her mother sent her out of the house so she didn't find out about the disease. She falls in love with Ho Bak and in order to make her dad let them get married she pretends that she is pregnant by him. They get married in the end, although I thought it wouldn't happen because of a certain tragedy (that I'm mad about) on the way to the wedding.

Hong Yoo Jin plays Lee Tae Ri, who is the mother of Young Guk and Kkeut Soon. She's a very warm hearted person and very beautiful. She eventually develops Dementia and it gradually gets worse. But after meeting Bi Chwi who she calls Pal Ji (which means bracelet in Korean) she eventually gets SO much better. She starts remembering stuff. She starts eating again. She really recovers.. And oh yeah did I mention that he also dies?!?! Weren't expecting that were ya? Thanks for the big slap in the face, writer. I loved her character WHY WOULD YOU KILL HER? More on that later though... Sigh..

Park Geun Hyung plays Seo Ro Ma who is the father of Young Guk and Kkeut Soon. He's very sweet, even though his appearance comes off as a little harsh sometimes. He's absolutely in love with his wife so it's very hard on him, her having Dementia.

Michael Blunck plays Kyle Huntington, who is a foreigner from America who came to Korea to be a Buddhist monk. He rents at Bi Chwi's house, and becomes close to Young Guk and Ryu Bi. He is treated like family after awhile around the household. His stepmom and father are owners of a hotel in America and are rich. His stepmom is friends with Young Guk's mother. He eventually does become a monk even though it took awhile, and no one wanted him too. Even himself at times. It appears that he fell in love with Ryu Bi, but nothing was ever confirmed. He's got a kind heart, and is really fun to watch. 

Jung Yoo Mi plays Lee Kang Ji, who is the sweet wife of San Ho. Her father has cancer and wants to see her marry soon and have kids... SO. She gets married to San Ho and they have a baby. She feels that if she messes up his studies with all of the stuff going on in her life, that she'll be to blame. Thank God he passed that test. 

Yoon Jong Hwa plays Dr. Yoo Byung Hoon, who is a doctor at the hospital Ryu Bi works at and is her boyfriend. His mom gives them such a rough time and they end up breaking up for awhile. And after that so much drama went on between them. But actually they ended up getting married. Which surprised me. 

GOOD GOD THATS A LONG CAST... That took me almost 2 hours... Sheesh. 

Story:

This is gonna be long.. or i may extremely condense it.

The show starts off with an old lady getting breast implants.. And really, I thought it was a great way to start a show. Who doesn't want to laugh at an old lady getting breast implants? I was actually so confused in the beginning, but it didn't take me long to fall in love with the show. 

Bi Chwi's parents are seriously stupid. The mom spends all the money they get, so they don't have money for much. She spends it on BREAST IMPLANTS for one.. And then a fortune teller who is almost not completely a sham. I mean in retrospect she is, but she eventually was right that Bi Chwi would regret it for not holding on to Young Guk. The dad is somewhat of a "player" and eventually has a baby outside of the marriage. This makes the family extremely happy and they live happily ever after. YEAH, RIGHT. The family is ENRAGED. The mother is hurt and the kids just despise how he acts. The mom even rented out a room to a foreigner without telling any of the kids... Well actually she did it twice. So the parents really cause a lot of stress to the kids. To the point to where the kids are fed up and kick the parents out. 

Next important thing: Bi Chwi and Young Guk are in love. Young Guk gets the news about his mother developing dementia, and leaves in the middle of the night without telling Bi Chwi anything. She's completely crushed. The siblings are disgusted.

Next: Kang Ji and San Ho get married. (they're adorable)

Next: Dr, and Ryu Bi have a very complicated relationship. At first his mother despised Ryu Bi because of her parents and background... So she wouldn't let the marriage happen. Then later on she was desperate for her son to have a wife and since her son had been betrayed by his past 2 potentials she ran for Ryu Bi. In the end they actually do get married.. And surprisingly they're happy. Yeahhh.... If only that happened in real life?

Next: While a stomach cancer patient is in the hospital Ryu Bi hears that she's rich and treats her extra nice. Her name is Sa Jang. Eventually Ryu Bi gets really close to her and becomes the daughter that she never had. Her brilliant plan worked. Kudos to you, Ryu Bi. BUT she actually did kinda sorta feel bad about it.. But she never told ms Sa Jang about it. Good thing. Eventually everyone becomes close to Sa Jang and treats her like family which is good because she had none. 

Next: Absolutely adorable actor Hwang Woo Bin is in love with Bi Chwi.. He's also Young Guk's best friend. He tries everything he can to get with Bi Chwi, but in the end her heart is only for Young Guk. His depressed look made me sad. Even though he was kinda a horrible person, I fell in love with him. Yeah I did. Bad, Shanea, BAD! 

Next: Young Guk's mom Tae Ri falls in love with Bi Chwi. She treats her like a daughter even before Young Guk and Bi Chwi get married. With Bi Chwi around, her dementia slowly improved. She was nowhere near as bad as she once was. I absolutely fell in love with this character.. Sure, she had dementia, but she was absolutely precious!!! And here comes the worst part... Oh god..

Next: Ho Bak and Kkeut Soon go to get married and I DONT EVEN WANT TO BRING THIS PART UP. Oh yeah.. I'm so so mad about this.. But you must know I guess. Tae Ri dies.. SHE DIES! I shall now go on a rant.

Ahem... 

HOW COULD YOU KILL HER???? SHE WAS MY FAVORITE PERSON BESIDES YOUNG GUK. HOW ON EARTH COULD YOU KILL HER??? AND JUST WHEN SHE HAD GOTTEN SO MUCH BETTER TOO. I CRIED FOR ABOUT AN HOUR TO THE POINT WHERE MY CHEST HURT. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THIS HURTS?? TO WATCH A SHOW AND GET SO INVOLVED IN IT TO WHERE YOU ALMOST FEEL LIKE YOU'RE THERE, YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH THE CHARACTERS AND THEN YOU KILL THEM?? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, WRITER PERSON??? I'M SERIOUSLY GONNA FIND YOU AND MAKE YOU READ THIS BLOG POST WHEN I GO TO KOREA AND YOU WILL REPENT FOR MAKING SUCH A SAD AND SCREWED UP ENDING. UNDERSTAND?? I think you get my point.. 

Thoughts:

Screwed up.. From the beginning to end.. Don't think I'm saying this because I don't like the show. I LOVED the show.. I just hate the writer.. And by that don't think that I don't like the writer... I like the writer. He/She wrote an amazing drama... But I guess what I'm trying to say is that I loved to hate it. It made me cry, made me mad, made me laugh.. That's what a good drama is suppose to do. Also, everyone is linked to everyone somehow in this drama and it's somewhat upsetting. So many dramatic things happen that made me want to pull my hair out. Forreal. There's points when I was screaming at my phone yelling NOOOO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! And wanting to throw my phone. lol. Especially when Tae Ri died.. I was like, " YOU BETTER NOT KILL HER, YOU BETTER NOT!! YOU BETTER NOT KILL HER, WRITER!! DON'T YOU DARE KILL HER.. OH COME ON REALLY YOU KILLED HER? I HATE YOU. I HATE YOU SO MUCH. I HATE THIS SHOW. I HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT."

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